Much like this week’s splashy action picture Source Code, Trust features a story line about people at the mercy of technology. But there’s no science-fiction component to director David Schwimmer’s grim story of Internet-based pedophilia, and there’s no aspect of it that doesn’t feel painfully plausible. We’re in the here and now, watching pretty 14-year-old Annie sink deeper and deeper into electronic quicksand.
She has a new online boyfriend, Charlie, and while she takes breaks for meals, classes and volleyball practice, she’s always gazing into her new laptop or clutching her iPhone, awaiting a text or a call from him. Her personal technology beats like a second heart. Annie’s parents are hip and fun: her dad Will is an advertising executive, while her mother Lynn sells real estate. Her brother Tyler is college bound, but the memory of his coolness still lingers in the minds of other girls at Annie’s high school, giving her a social leg up. There’s a little sister too. It’s a stable, content household. She’s not lacking.
